Missouri Genealogy Trails
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Benton Jr. High
School
1936 Graduation
Benton School, a junior high school, was
located at 3004 Benton Blvd. in Kansas City. One of its most famous
graduates was Walt Disney.
He credited the principal of Benton, J. M. Cottingham, for fostering
confidence and creativity in him during his years at Benton.
Benton School went through the eighth grade. The name was changed in later
years to Holmes School.
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Program Processional.............Benton School
Orchestra |
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936 - 8:00 P. M.
CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATION
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| Frances Ann Abraham |
| Virginia Lee Adams |
| Anita Janice Albaugh |
| Bonnie Armstrong |
| Diana Goldie Bartlett |
| Kathleen Beatty |
| Robert Oliver Bevis |
| June Elaine Bird |
| Esther Blanar |
| Jack Benard Boxer |
| June Maxine Burgess |
| Bursib DeWitt Carpenter |
| Mildred Chaitman |
| Isadore Comens |
| Phillip Comens |
| Joe Culbertson |
| Robert Henry Dempsey |
| Doris Pauline Dungan |
| Dixie Lee Eader |
| Bernard Irving Eisenberg |
| Jack Bernard Fichman |
| Robert Courtland Floyd |
| Charles Garrison |
| Libby Glassman |
| Dorothy May Grow |
| George Carlton Henning |
| Otto Herter, Jr. |
| William E. Irwin, Jr. |
| Donald Everett Jones |
| Paul Jack Kieffer |
| Mary Louise Knight |
| Hubert Sterling Long Larkin |
| DeVera Evelyn Leming |
| Ethel Lois Long |
| Guy Loughead |
| Sheridan Mallin |
| Vera Claire McNary |
| Robert McPeak |
| Hazel Patricia Morrill |
| Helen Faye Murphy |
| Marjorie Beatrice Parmeter |
| Stanley J. Pfefer |
| Wanita Marie Phillips |
| George Corwin Pierce |
| Rosalind Roine Ristine |
| Meta Claressa Roberts |
| Sara Sue Rosen |
| Saul Rosen |
| William Francis Rosser |
| Robert Allan Rush |
| Donald Sarver |
| Glenn G. Selter |
| Leon Sternfeld |
| Wilma June Swank |
| Verne James Tobin |
| Donald Van Derbur |
| Robert Van Wye |
| Homer Walters |
| William Bruce Weaver |
| George Weaver |
| Wilma Alice Weddle |
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Robert Whinery
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Benton School Graduates --January 1936 Bertam Gus Barnett |